Cato the Elder warned his colleagues, “We have crossed into Greece and Asia, places filled with all the allurements of vice, and we are handling the treasures of kings… I fear that these things will capture us rather than we them. On the last day of the Constitutional Convention, right after adoption, a woman waiting outside the old Pennsylvania State House asked Benjamin Franklin whether the nation would be a monarchy or a republic. The emperor Tiberius would chide an overzealous governor: “It was the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not skin it.

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One of the constant challenges of the Republic is to keep the two aligned, for our natural inclination is to love our home, and loving the Republic is an intellectual exercise.George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics and culture.

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To further give the album kudos is that, unlike other meditation albums (I’ve heard so far), there is a sense of variety, instead of continual pattern; each song has a unique identity of its own, in terms of highs and lows, inner and outer consciousness. Between 60,000 and 80,000 Romans and 40,000 camp followers were slaughtered at the Battle of Arausio.

In his assessment of the troubled times ahead, many will find his chapter on the 20 20 s crisis in technology and education the most interesting , and draw comparisons with Australia. America was in its infancy, sharing a world filled with countries that had existed and evolved for centuries, if not millennia. These two major cycles are both converging on the late 2020s—a time in which many of these foundations will change. What these three men knew, however, was that the United States was a moral project and moral projects require icons, things that define the moral mission and carry with them a sense of the sacred.